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| Chinese Boxes | |
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| Directed by | Chris Petit |
| Written by | L. M. Kit Carson Chris Petit |
| Produced by | Chris Sievernich |
| Starring | Will Patton Robbie Coltrane |
| Cinematography | Peter Harvey |
| Edited by | Fred Srp |
| Music by | Günther Fischer |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Palace Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom West Germany |
| Language | English |
Chinese Boxes is a 1984 British-West German crime mystery thriller film directed by Chris Petit and starring Will Patton and Robbie Coltrane. [1] [2] The film was partially German funded. [3]
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Filming for Chinese Boxes was filmed in East Berlin during 1984. The film's score was composed by a Stasi informer who also lived in East Berlin. [4]
Chinese Boxes premiered on 29 November 1984 in the United Kingdom.[ citation needed ] Years later the movie was screened in 2013 as part of Petit's Museum of Loneliness project, also in the United Kingdom. [5]
Critical reception was generally favorable. [6] Derek Malcolm reviewed Chinese Boxes for The Guardian , commenting that it "looks good and is at least lively". [7] The Independent remarked that the movie was "a quintessential Eighties riddle-thriller with a hint of Godard's Made in USA in its comic-strip flatness: it features a showdown in a paper-pulping yard, a foretaste of Petit's later preoccupation with pulped and discarded culture." [8]
Chinese Boxes has also received a 2013 review from Chris Darke in Sight & Sound . [9]
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